Extracting the Best Features of Two Tropos Approaches for the Efficient Design of MAS.
Maria Jocelia Silva, Paulo Roberto Maciel, Rosa Candida Pinto, Fernanda M. R. Alencar, Patricia Cabral de Azevedo Restelli Tedesco, Jaelson B Castro · Conferencia Iberoamericana de Software Engineering · 2007
Nowadays, there is an increasing demand for agent-oriented software development methodologies. Tropos is one of the most complete. However, researchers currently use two Tropos approaches. Some potential users feel difficulties in applying the methodology due to the differences in the sequence of activities and output artifacts generated by those two approaches. In this work we analyze both approaches of Tropos to identify the similarities and differences between them. As result, we select a sequence of activities and common output artifacts and extract the better points of each approach. The selected activities are then applied to the xaADB (a multiagent system that monitors DBMS) modeling to capture the fundamental concepts of the agents oriented development paradigm: agents, organization, communication, negotiation and coordination.